Acknowledging every student’s presence is the necessary precondition for radical learning

Evidence

Since the vast majority of students learn through conservative, traditional educational practices and concern themselves only with the presence of the professor, any radical pedagogy must insist that everyone’s presence is acknowledged. That insistence can not be simply stated. It has to be demonstrated through pedagogical practices. To begin, the professor must genuinely value every one’s presence. There must be an ongoing recognition that everyone influences the classroom dynamic, that everyone contributes. These contributions are resources. Used constructively they enhance the capacity of any class to create an open learning community. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 25

Categorization

• XREF: The practical move of learning every student’s name and context visibly echoes her grade-school teachers who ‘knew’ each child — drawn directly from paragraph [12]. — connects to: School can invert home’s conformism by offering self-reinvention through ideas — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 13; Learning from below requires mutual ethical responding with a compromised teacher — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 2217; Students’ lived knowledge can exceed textbook content and unsettle teacher authority — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 720 (+5 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Sync and body-presence are required for affective resonance in teaching #expands (0.82) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 286
• Students’ lived knowledge can exceed textbook content and unsettle teacher authority #expands (0.80) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 720
• Learning from below requires mutual ethical responding with a compromised teacher #complicates (0.75) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 2217
• Attention is learned rather than innate, always and for everyone #corroborates (0.70)